Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 putative syntype queen, syntype males (number not stated). Primary type locality: Malaysia: Malacca, Maxwell’s Hill, nr Taiping, 3000 ft, 2.ii.-15.iii.1912, no. 79a (
H. von Buttel-Reepen). Primary type depository:
MHNG. Primary type specimen:
CASENT0909796.
Type notes:
1)
Forel, 1913l comments that the workers and males were found together. 2)
Shattuck, 1994: 160, cites 25 worker, 3 male syntypes in
MHNG. 3)
Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 99, cites 3 worker ‘syntypes’ in
NHMB from Sumatra, Bandar Beroe; these are mentioned by
Forel, 1913l: 99 (in text) but are not type material.